Erin Jay

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Fairphone, the Dutch startup that’s working to build a fairer smartphone, has today released a first look at the next version of its device.<p>Simply named ‘Fairphone 2,’ the new device that’s due out later this year marks the first time the company has designed an entire smartphone itself.<p>The …

Over the past 10,000 years—and especially in recent decades, as agricultural technology has improved—plant breeders have coaxed crops to be increasingly easier to farm. This has involved, in part, selectively breeding plants for high yields of fruit, seeds, or whatever other edible bits we want to …

America's heartland is graying. The average age of a farmer in the U.S. is 58.3 — and that number has been steadily ticking upward for more than 30 years.<p>Overall, fewer young people are choosing a life on the land. But in some places around the country, like Maine, that trend is reversing. Small …

Salinas, California, wants to be a tech hub for the farming set.<p>If you’re eating a salad for lunch today, there’s a good chance it came from California’s Salinas Valley, the rich agricultural area an hour’s drive south of Silicon Valley where more than two-thirds nation’s leafy greens are produced. …

If the highest calibre of young people become farmers it will improve food security and help solve the unemployment crisis. Can tech make farming cool?<p>As farmers age around the globe – I estimate that the average age is 55 – we need to make sure that young people see the food system as a viable …